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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
863.64 A432
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863.64 A432
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"In this memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss--the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her mother, who lives in Chile, wrote to each other, Allende ... recounts the stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her that becomes a new kind of family. Throughout, Allende shares her thoughts...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
813.54 B924
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813.54 B924
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Bestselling author Buckley's most personal and transcendent work--the tragicomic true story of the year in which he lost both of his parents. The author offers consolation, wit, and warmth to those coping with the death of a mother or father.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
813.54 D193
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813.54 D193
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"Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph, a charismatic pastor, as her 'second father' when she was placed in his care at age four when her parents left Haiti for America. So she experiences a jumble of emotions when, at twelve, she joins her parents in New York City, whom she struggles to remember--she has left behind Joseph and the only home she's ever known. The story of a new life in a new country while fearing for those still in Haiti soon...
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Caldwell reflects on her own coming-of-age in midlife, as she learns to open herself to the power and healing of sharing her life with a best friend. Traces the author's close friendship with the late fellow writer Caroline Knapp, describing their shared experiences with sobriety, a love of dogs, and Caroline's battle with cancer.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
813.54 DIDION
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813.54 DIDION
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Solvang Library - Adult Non-Fiction
813.54
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813.54
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
813.54
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813.54
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1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
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"From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child."--Amazon.com.
6) Blue nights
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
813.54 D556
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813.54 D556
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Santa Ynez Library - Adult Non-Fiction
813.54 D556
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813.54 D556
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
813.54 D556
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813.54 D556
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT 813.54 D556
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LARGE PRINT 813.54 D556
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In this memoir, the author shares her observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent. It opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana's wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana's childhood,...
7) On living
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
170.44 EGAN
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170.44 EGAN
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"A hospice chaplain passes on wisdom on giving meaning to life, from those taking leave of it. As a hospice chaplain, Kerry Egan didn't offer sermons or prayers, unless they were requested; in fact, she found, the dying rarely want to talk about God, at least not overtly. Instead, she discovered she'd been granted an invaluable chance to witness firsthand what she calls the "spiritual work of dying"--the work of finding or making meaning of one's...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
973.92092 E29
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973.92092 E29
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Solvang Library - Adult Non-Fiction
973.92092 E29
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973.92092 E29
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT 973.92092 E29
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LARGE PRINT 973.92092 E29
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"A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together."--Amazon.com....
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
978.827 FORRESTER
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978.827 FORRESTER
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"In the vein of The Liar's Club and The Glass Castle, Jenny Forrester's memoir perfectly captures both place and a community situated on the Colorado Plateau between slot canyons and rattlesnakes, where she grew up with her mother and brother in a single-wide trailer proudly displaying an American flag. Forrester's powerfully eloquent story reveals a rural small town comprising God-fearing Republicans, ranchers, Mormons, and Native Americans. With...
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Buellton Library - Adult Non-Fiction
828.914 KOHLER
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828.914 KOHLER
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
828.914 KOHLER
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828.914 KOHLER
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"A heartrending literary memoir of the tragic death of Kohler's older sister describes how in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, the author investigated their unusual shared childhood and her brother-in-law's violent history,"--NoveList.
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"100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem"--
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
283.092 TICHENOR
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283.092 TICHENOR
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"In less than a year and a half, Liz's mother killed herself and her infant son died unexpectedly. In between these two deaths, Liz was ordained as an Episcopal priest. The Night Lake is the story of finding a way forward through the kind of tragedy thatseems like it might be beyond surviving, and trying to do so while holding down a job that's all about leading a community in hope. It's the story of parenting a toddler who is delighted with the world...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
813.54 O119
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813.54 O119
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Joyce Carol Oates shares her struggle to comprehend a life absent of the partnership that had sustained and defined her for nearly half a century.
14) On my own
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
791.44 REHM
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791.44 REHM
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"In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio hostess speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of 54 years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him"--Provided by publisher.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
362.196 RIGGS
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362.196 RIGGS
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"Built on her wildly popular Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a breathtaking memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38 year old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years, after her terminal cancer diagnosis"--
"An exquisite memoir about how to live--and love--every day with 'death in the room, ' from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young...
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Buellton Library - Adult Non-Fiction
155.937 SANDBERG
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155.937 SANDBERG
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Solvang Library - Adult Non-Fiction
155.937 SANDBERG
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155.937 SANDBERG
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"From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks. After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void,'" she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and...
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Buellton Library - Adult Non-Fiction
818.603 SMITH
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818.603 SMITH
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
818.603 S662
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818.603 S662
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"A memoir about the author's coming of age as she grapples with her identity as an artist, her family's racial history, and her mother's death from cancer"--
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a deeply moving memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter. Tracy K. Smith had a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest...
18) About Alice
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
814.54 T829
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814.54 T829
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In a tribute to his late wife, Alice, and their relationship, the author celebrates the life of a remarkable woman who played a vital role in his life.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
362.196 MAYNARD
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362.196 MAYNARD
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"Written by Deborah Ziegler, the mother of Brittany Maynard--a twenty-nine-year-old woman with a terminal brain tumor--this touching and beautiful memoir captures and celebrates her daughter's spirit and the mostly untold story of Brittany's last year of life as she chose her right to die with dignity, a journey that inspired millions."--Amazon.com.
"At the age of 29, Brittany Maynard was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. This was not, however,...
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
616.89009 J326
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616.89009 J326
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"A haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss. Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison--who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion--could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. She looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with her characteristic...